Travel Blogs from Loveland

... for a little drop before we decide that we have to purchase. There is still a bit of time yet. The big news as you might have seen is that we decided on a name for our travel blog! It is now "El Camino de las Tres Amigas" or The Camino of the Three Friends". This name was a group collaboration and we love it! We hope you like it too! Next month, we will be hiking towards the end of January so watch for a new entry ...

... to cross Monarch Pass which takes the road over the Collegiate Mountains to the scenic and wonderful San Luis Valley. This is part of the scenic route home from New Mexico so we know it. At the crest of this road the continental divide is crossed. So now water flows toward the Atlantic via the Arkansas River or the Rio Grande further south instead of to the Pacific via the Colorado or Gunnison Rivers. We got gas at Poncha Springs and turned north into the rising wedge created ...

... palace kitchens, go to concerts, the ballet, a medieval banquet, and one of the highlights for me, Christmas morning at Westminster Abbey. As London Transport takes Christmas off completely, we will have to take taxis to and from the Abbey, which will cost a fortune, but will be a birthday present to me! One must have tickets, which are free, to attend the Christmastime services at the Abbey. I had found out what day ...

... Argentina and finish in Bariloche, a small town in northern Patagonia. We are excited to start this adventure, but at the same time a little anxious. Going to school every day will be challenging since we are accustomed to doing whatever we want on our own schedule and our minds don't seem as nimble as we seem to remember once they were. After we finish with school we hope we have mastered enough Spanish to head ...

... had a good bit of trouble today.) where Rod left me behind as I held tightly to a scrawny pine tree sticking out of a rock. It was a bit surreal because as we were playing in the dino tracks, there was a huge drag race in the valley below us. I got a pretty good picture of the cars racing then deploying the chutes. We drove up to Red Rocks park and amphitheater after the dinosaur trail and hiked in the rock formations. I can't believe I didn't know anything about ...